scientific article; zbMATH DE number 17098
[For the entire collection see Zbl 0727.00008.] A finite partial geometry of order \((s,t)\) and incidence parameter \(\alpha\) is a point-line geometry with \(s+1\) points per line, \(t+1\) lines on every point, at most one line through two distinct points and such that there are exactly \(\alpha\) points on a given line 1 collinear with a given point \(P\) not on 1. The paper under review starts with an overview of the known models of ``proper partial geometries, i.e. \(1<\alpha<\min(s,t)\). The authors consider a set \(K\) of \(k\) points and the related positive integer \(n\), which is the smallest non-zero number of points of \(K\) on one line. Two results on lower bounds for \(k\) are proved with some precise geometric information if the lower bound is reached. Similar inequalities are proved for two pointsets \(H\) and \(K\) such that no line meets simultaneously \(H\) and \(K\). Also arithmetic conditions on \((0,n)\)-sets are proved (a \((0,n)\)-set is a set of points such that every line meets it in 0 or \(n\) points) and this is applied to classify all \((0,s)\)-sets in any partial geometry of order \((s,t)\): they are to be found among the complement of ovoids (an ovoid is a set of \((st+\alpha)/\alpha\) points no two of which are collinear), the complement of lines and the complement of sub-partial geometries of order \((s,t')\) and intersection parameter \(\alpha\), \(t'=(t+1-\alpha)/s\). The paper ends with some examples.
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